Release Date :
April 14, 2000
Type : Comedy and Drama
Rating : PG-13
Director : Betty Thomas
Producer : Jenno Topping
Distributor : Columbia Tristar
Duration : 103 min.
Overview : Gwen Cummings is a successful New York writer living
life in the fast lane and everyone's favorite party girl. She shares
this roller-coaster lifestyle of hopping from dance club to bar to
hangover with boyfriend Jasper-handsome, magnetic and equally attracted
to life on the wild side. Life is just an exercise in debauchery-until
Gwen's ungraceful display at her sister Lily's wedding, when she gets
drunk, commandeers the limo and earns herself a DUI and 28 days in
court-ordered rehab. There, Gwen comes face to face with a unique set of
rules (like no cell phones) and rituals (like chanting) embraced by an
assortment of fascinating fellow re-habbers: Eddie, Gerhardt, Oliver,
Andrea, Roshanda, and Billie Jean. A jaded city girl to the core, Gwen
is determined not to conform. Then she meets Counselor Cornell, who
begins to break through her carefully constructed defenses and force her
to take a closer look at who she really is. Ultimately, through the
companionship of! her group as well as a devastating loss, Gwen
gradually loses her cynicism and begins the long struggle to take back
her life. Maybe, she discovers, your insides can match your outsides.